Chapter 19: Class Division Exam [11]
I am so fucked.
It was the only thought I had in that moment.
The girl—no, the thing wearing her skin—lurched toward me, her limbs twitching and jerking as if being moved by strings.
Her neck bent at an odd angle, her jaw unhinging with a wet crack to reveal a fresh set of fangs.
Shorter than the vampire’s. Not yet fully formed.
But sharp enough to kill.
She let out a shriek—a mangled mixture of a scream and a gurgle—that echoed through the alley like nails scraping on glass.
And then she charged.
I barely managed to sidestep, my newly sharpened agility kicking in at the last second.
She crashed into the brick wall behind me, headfirst, but didn’t stop.
She clawed at the air, spun, and lunged again like a rabid animal.